Gary Ross quotes

Gary Ross is an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his work on films such as "Pleasantville" and "The Hunger Games." His storytelling combines imagination with strong social themes. He has received several Academy Award nominations for his contributions to the film industry. Here are 32 of his quotes:

You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but - there are so many things ... that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous ... or brief. And every one of those things is in you all the time, if you just have the guts to look for them.

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Huck and - and the slave.... they ... they were going up the river, trying to get free.... and - in trying to get free ... they see that they're sort of free already...

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I wish I were big.

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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

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There are certain things you should expect from a President. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in.

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There are some places ... that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.

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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

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Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye.

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I'm trying to capture what was visceral in the books, which is your first-person present tense narrative, and that's gonna require a certain amount of subjectivity.

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I'm not cutting from place-to-place, I'm moving in this serpentine, destabilized path as Katniss wanders through this world.

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He's kind of without peer really. If I was gonna settle on a director, probably Kubrick.

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It's almost like Picasso in that he mastered so many different genres.

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I love almost all of Stanley Kubrick, there's almost no Stanley Kubrick I don't love.

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Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice.

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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but - there are so many things ... that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous ... or brief.

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

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